The Maritime Executive
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ZPMC Launches First SOV Built for French Shipping Group LD Armateurs
[By ZPMC] The Wind of Ocean, the first service operation vessel (SOV) built by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (ZPMC)...
Sea Trials Begin on Hybrid Wind-Solar System Using Horizontal Turbines
Sea trials have begun on a hybrid wind and solar power system designed to reduce auxiliary engine emissions for a retrofitted cont...
GAO Critical of US Navy Saying Submarines Are Idle Due to Shipyard Logjam
Too many of the U.S. Navy's attack submarines are sitting idle across shipyards awaiting maintenance and decommissioning, accordin...
Japan Announces First Tranche, $3.8B Investment in Shipbuilders
Japan’s Minister of Transport unveiled the government’s first investments in the shipbuilding industry as part of an ambitious pla...
UK Confirms Sale of HMS Bulwark to Brazilian Navy
A United Kingdom navy ship that was instrumental in the evacuation of civilians from Beirut in 2006 and active from 2005 to 2016 i...
Navigation Warning After Ship Loses 46 Containers in Philippine Waters
The Philippine Coast Guard issued a navigational warning for one of its busy shipping lanes after a containership lost 46 boxes ov...
IMO Concludes Next Round of Net-Zero Discussions Still Divided
The International Maritime Organization completed its next working group session discussing efforts to reach a decarbonization app...
Japan Plans to Equip Submarines with Hypersonic Missiles
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has presented a preliminary fiscal year 2027 defense budget request to the Diet, the Japane...
COSCO Calls Allegations of “Intelligence Collection” False and Unfounded
COSCO Shipping issued a strongly worded statement saying it “firmly opposes” false and unfounded claims by “certain media” allegin...
Captain and Third Officer Arrested on Negligent Homicide in Turkish Crash
Turkish prosecutors have moved quickly since the early Tuesday morning collision between a tanker and a cargo ship, reporting on F...